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The comparison of two things, using like or as
What is a simile?
100
Plot -Exposition: A boy, a boat, a monster, a pearl
What is The Colomber?
100
"Peers into the mirror, mirror on the wall" is a reference to this fairy tale.
What is Snow White?
100
This is the sequence of events is a story.
What is the plot?
100
The number of lines in a sonnet.
What is 14 lines?
200
To give "life" to inanimate objects
What is personification?
200
Plot - Climax: Mary used the cold, hard weapon to strike Patrick down.
What is "Lamb to the Slaughter"?
200
In "Heart! We will forget him!," the speaker is refering to herself and who else?
What is her heart?
200
These are examples of this term: man vs. tornado; man vs. man; man vs. society
What is external conflict?
200
When you do something different from what you say you make a ___________.
What is a contradiction?
300
"Her hair was a tomato" is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is metaphor.
300
Plot - Resolution: He found the hubcap and straightened his father's junkyard.
What is "Catch the Moon"?
300
Wisdom is not as good as kisses according to this poem.
What is "since feeling is first"?
300
"To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife" is an example of this type of literary term.
What is alliteration?
300
Napoleon took Jessie's puppies for this purpose.
What is to turn them into the Animal Guard?
400
When a reference is made to something well-known it is this term.
What is allusion?
400
The theme of this story was technology can deaden the lives of people who use it too much.
What is "The Pedestrian"?
400
"We real cool" has many literary terms in it. Name three.
What is alliteration, onomatopoeia, and internal rhyme?
400
When we know so many things about a character they could be real is an example of this type of character.
What is a round character.
400
This is the turning point of a story, where everything changes.
What is the climax?
500
"The tree danced with the wind like he danced with his wife" is an example of these terms.
What is personification AND simile?
500
The following quote comes from this story: "In real life I am a large, big-boned woman with rough, man-working hands. In the winter I wear flannel nightgowns to bed and overalls during the day. I can kill and clean a hog as mercilessly as a man."
What is "Everyday Use"?
500
"Moan like an autumn wind high in the lonesome treetops, moan soft like you wanted somebody terrible, cry like a racing car slipping away from a motorcycle cop, bang-bang!" refers to what type of music? And name this poem.
What is Jazz music and Jazz Fantasia?
500
The term we use when one thing stands for something else, as well as itself. And give one example.
What is symbolism and sleep = death?
500
When an entire story, including all of the characters in it, mean something greater than itself is this type of literature.
What is an allegory?